This says a lot about my childhood.

[naamah_darling]

Until I was about six, I thought:

A guilt trip was something grownups actually took because they were mad at someone. It lasted all weekend and was always to someplace that you really wanted to go. But you didn't get to. Because you were bad

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[thediva_laments]

In a similar vein, but less... appalling, I once had two friends who both grew up near one another but who didn't meet until adulthood. Both of them grew up thinking that the term "wind chill" was "windshield" and couldn't understand what a windshield had to do with winter weather.

[redhotlips]

I think all kids have some of these, regardless of how aware parents are. I distinctly remember being gobsmacked at the realization that my legs were attached to my butt. It was astounding to me at 10 years old.

My niece used to think that money came from bushes, cause we were always saying it didn't grow on trees. She knew it wasn't grown in the garden, so that left bushes.

[ladybugpurple]

*LOL at the one about money*

I'm trying to figure out why you were so shocked about your legs being attached to your butt though. I completely agree though that, as children, yeah, we all have those funny things we thought were true, meant something else, or our brains just couldn't wrap around. Heh. :) Maybe I shouldn't try and figure out why you were astounded by this!

[ladybugpurple]

Silly Naamah! :)

[elialshadowpine]

When I was a young teenager, I was very confused about the word adultery. Because I first came across it when sitting down and reading the Bible (I really have no idea how I didn't come across it until then, but it probably makes more sense when you consider I was a very, very sheltered homeschooled kid) and it was connected with sex, my brain somehow decided that it referred to doing "adult" things like sex and masturbation. So I thought I was going to Hell for masturbating. Oy.

[kyra_neko_rei]

I always used to think adultery was a fancy word for rape. Because apparently that's what eventually-polyamorous, marriage-optional me thought of as a child when given the vague definition "sex that you're not supposed to have."

The confirmation class in which we discussed the Ten Commandments was something of a letdown for me.

[elialshadowpine]

LMAO... okay now I feel relieved that I'm not the only one with a fucked up childhood ;) sometimes I really wonder about the concepts I got. Like, the other one I'm not sure where was that my young brain (we're talking 10 or 11) decided that God wasn't an idiot and would "recycle" aborted fetuses... so I was very, very confused at people saying that abortion sent baby's souls to hell, or even heaven, because, why wouldn't God just send the soul to a new body? It is probably no wonder that I ended up pagan.

(and yes, poly here too... though I did get married because, benefits, plus, we didn't want my partner's NUTJOB family to have the power to make medical decisions in case of emergency. I would trust mine, but I wouldn't trust his as far as I could throw them)

[naamah_darling]

I believed that one, about the recycling souls, right up until I became a more-or-less atheist.

I am half-convinced that I am the male twins my mother miscarried. It would explain SO MUCH.

[farrandy]

John F. Kennedy was assassinated when I was just short of three years old. After that, in the small town that I grew up in, you would see just about everywhere (and in matching frames no less), pictures of JFK and Jesus. I really had no idea who these guys were, but thought they must have been brothers. Even at that age though, I couldn't figure out why they were dressed so differently.

[naamah_darling]

I cannot stop giggling. That is just so . . . so . . . that's adorable. I can't articulate why, but it is.